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PSYC 395 Forensic Psychology UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Clinical forensic psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER- Psychologists who are broadly concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental health issues as they pertain to the law or legal system Psychology of the law - CORR...

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PSYC 395 Forensic Psychology UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Clinical forensic psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Psychologists who are broadly
concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental health issues as they pertain to the
law or legal system

Psychology of the law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The use of psychology to examine the
law itself

Experimental Forensic Psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Psychologists who are
broadly concerned with the study of human behaviour as it relates to the law or legal system

Daubert Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A standard for accepting expert testimony,
which states that scientific evidence is valid if the research on which it is based has been peer
reviewed, is testable, has a recognized rate of error, and adheres to professional standards

Expert Witness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A witness who provides the court with
information (often an opinion on a particular matter) that assists the court in understanding an
issue of relevance to a case

Forensic Psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A field of medicine that deals with all
aspects of human behaviour as it relates to the law or legal system

General Acceptance Test - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A standard for accepting expert
testimony, which states that expert testimony will be admissible in court if the basis of the
testimony is generally accepted within the relevant scientific community

Mohan Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A standard for accepting expert testimony,
which states that expert testimony will be admissible in court if the testimony is relevant, is
necessary for assisting the trier of fact, does not violate any exclusionary rules, and is
provided by a qualified expert

Psychology and the law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- study of the psychological and
behavioral dimensions of the legal system

,Psychology in the law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The use of psychology in the legal
system as that system operates

Forensic psychology is a field of medicine that deals with all aspects of human behavior as it
relates to the law or legal system. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False. It
relates to all the law or legal system

What are clinical forensic psychologists broadly concerned with? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- the assessment and treatment of mental health issues as they pertain to the
law or legal system

What are experimental forensic psychologists broadly concerned with? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- the study of human behavior are it relates to the law or legal system

What is Daubert Criteria? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a standard for accepting expert
testimony, which states that scientific evidence is valid if the research upon which is baed has
been peer reviewed, it testable, has a recognized rate of error, and adheres to professional
standards.

What is the Mohan criteria? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a standard for accepting expert
testimony which states that expert testimony will be admissible in court if the testimony is
relevant, necessary for assisting the trier of fact, doesn't violate any exclusionary rules, and is
provided by a qualified expert.

The general acceptance test states that only general testimony will be admissible in court
where expert testimony isn't credible, lacking, or not available. True or False? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- False. The general acceptance states the expert testimony will be admissible
in court if the basis of the testimony is generally accepted withing the relevant scientific
community

An expert witness provides the court with an opinion on a particular matter that assists the
court in understanding an issue of relevance to a case. True or False? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- True

,police discretion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The freedom that a police officer often has for
deciding what should be done in any given situation

The more serious the case, the less discretion is offered to the police offer. True or false? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True

Use-of-force-continuum - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A model that is supposed to guide
police officer decision making in use-of-force situations by indicating what level of force is
appropriate given the suspect's behaviour and other environmental conditions

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is an assessment instrument used to
identify police applicants who are suitable for police work by measuring their personality
attributes and behavior patterns. True or false? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False. The
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is an assessment instrument for identifying
people with psychopathological problems. The Inwals Personality Inventory is an assessment
instrument used to identify police applicants who are suitable for police work by measuring
their personality attributes and behavior patterns.

Police selection procedures - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of procedures used by the
police to either screen out undesirable candidates or select in desirable candidates

A job analysis is a procedure for identifying the knowledge, skills, and abilities that make up
a good police officer. Which of the following are problems in conducting a job analysis? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1) a good officer may not be stable over time, which make it
difficult to determine what to test for.
2) Different types of policing jobs will be characterized by different types of knowledge,
skills, and attitudes.
3) people may disagree over which knowledge, skills and attitudes are important for policing.

Policing is a stressful occupation ________stressors include inaccurate press reports and
ineffectiveness of social services agencies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- public

Policing is a stressful occupation _______stressors include lack of career development and
excessive paperwork - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- organizational

, Policing is a stressful occupation ___________ stressors include shift work and human
suffering. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- occupational

Policing is a stressful occupation _________stressors include the ineffectiveness of the
corrections system and unfavourable court decisions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- criminal
justice

Police officers cannot the sources of job-related stress. Which of the following strategies is
likeley to be most effective in combating the negative effects of stress? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- applying adaptive coping skills

Assessment Centre - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A facility in which the behaviour of police
applicants can be observed in a number of situations by multiple observers

Cognitive ability tests - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Procedure for measuring verbal,
mathematical, memory, and reasoning abilities

Inwald Personality Inventory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An assessment instrument used to
identify police applicants who are suitable for police work by measuring their personality
attributes and behaviour patterns

Job analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a procedure for identifying the knowledge, skills, a
abilities that make a good police officer.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- an
assessment instrument for identifying people with psychopathological problem

Occupational stressors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- In policing, stressors relating to the job
itself

Organizational stressors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- in policing, stressors relating to
organizational issues

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